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The New Patriotic Party has been dismayed by the revelation yesterday that President John Evans Atta-Mills, the highest public servant, is refusing to expose criminals who have attempted to offer him bribe. This development is an unfortunate setback to the nation’s fight against corruption.

If people have become so emboldened that they are able to walk up to the highest office of the land and seek to offer bride to the President of the Republic, then we are losing the fight against corruption. Such people should be exposed immediately.

It is questionable that the President failed to cause the arrest of such criminals when the incident happened. It would appear that President Mills and the NDC government he presides over have an unhealthy interest in protecting such criminals. It is to diffuse such an impression that the President needs to stop shielding them and offer them to the law without further delay.

More importantly, the President’s shielding of the wrongdoers betrays government’s lack of commitment to fight corruption. Coming at a time of ongoing investigations into the Mabey & Johnson corruption scandal, the revelation of President’s protection for the criminals is embarrassing to the Presidency, the NDC government, as well as the nation.

And the President must expose them now!

Kwaku Kwarteng
Communications Director
Source: The Statesman